Opinion
Top NC court delivers bad news to bureaucrats
Three Oct. 17 decisions from the North Carolina Supreme Court delivered wins for those who challenge actions from state government's unaccountable employees.
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NC Supreme Court affirms ruling against DEQ over animal waste rules
The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld Friday a lower court’s decision favoring the North Carolina Farm Bureau in a legal battle with state environmental regulators. The high court split, 5-2, in determining that three provisions in the state’s general animal-waste permits should have been subjected to the state’s rulemaking process.
Opinion
Top NC court could blunt sue-and-settle environmental schemes
A case pitting North Carolina's environmental regulators against the Farm Bureau could have far-reaching impacts.
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Top NC court to decide fate of challenged animal waste permit conditions
The North Carolina Supreme Court must decide whether three challenged conditions in state animal waste permits are state government rules. If so, those conditions would be thrown out because they didn’t go through the state’s rulemaking process.
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Top NC court to hear animal waste permit dispute on April 23
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in a case pitting the state Department of Environmental Quality against the North Carolina Farm Bureau. The farm group opposes three conditions tied to state animal waste permits affecting 2,000 farmers statewide.
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Farm Bureau challenges animal waste permit rules at top NC court
The North Carolina Farm Bureau is urging the state Supreme Court to uphold a lower court’s ruling against state environmental regulators in a dispute over animal waste permits. The Farm Bureau argues that challenged permit conditions should be treated as state rules.
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Top NC court will review dispute over state animal waste permits
The North Carolina Supreme Court will take up a legal dispute pitting the state Department of Environmental Quality against the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation. The case involves conditions tied to state animal waste permits.
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Hudson supports bill to block federal use of ‘social cost of carbon’
The federal government would be banned from using the so-called “social cost of carbon” in its rulemaking process, under a bill co-sponsored by a member of the N.C. congressional delegation. U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8th District, is one of six Republican House sponsors of the Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act.
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Senate Passes Reg Reform; House Version Up Next
The state Senate on Monday approved its version of regulation reform on a mostly party-line 30-15 vote. The 2016 version of the Senate deregulation bill includes a provision that restricts agencies from imposing costly regulations that exceed thresholds set by the statute. Another provision would end the ban on using landfills to dispose of electronic...
